Good News for HIV Positive Surgical Patients, Tim Horn, AIDSmeds.com

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• Health Care and Insurance Issues
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Research/Journal Articles  

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This is Tim Horn's synopsis of the Horberg/KP study on the impact of HIV infection on the surgical safety. Thanks to the widespread availability and use of antiretroviral therapy, Kaiser Permanente researchers suggest that HIV-positive patients can safely undergo a wide range of surgical procedures. The new study, published in the December 18 issue of Archives of Surgery, indicates that the risk of some post-operative complications is higher than that seen in HIV-negative patients, but mostly in HIV-positive patients with moderately high viral loads and very low CD4 (T4) cell counts.

 

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Published

2007-March-25